Water-purifier.



F. DINGHAUS.

WATER PURIFIER.

APPLICATION FILED D110. 15, 1909.

Patented Jul 5, 1910.

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raiipu rox DINGEAUS, or PUERTO I GUATEMALA warnnrruurrzna,

Be it'known that I, FRED RI K Dnseirius, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city ofPuerto Barrios, in the Repub lic of Guatemala, Central America, have-1nvented certain new, and useful Improve-- ments in- Water- Purifiers,

of which the followingis .aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements for removing impurities such; as lime and 'sediment. from water,- especially 7 from water which is designed to be used subsequently in claimed. 1 a v a boiler for producing steam, and it consists in the combinations, constructions-and ar- 15 rangements of-parts herein described and .An object of my invention-is, as stated above to remove lime and sediment. from water 'andI, make ruse of rays-of light for accomplishing-v this. purpose 'inconnection with the simple apparatus herein described.

A further object r my invention is to pro% vide an. apparatus'through which the water may be continuously flowing,-thereby"obviating the necessity of stopping the ;flow in v order to remove "the sediment from the apparatus as is; common with some. devices .having for their objects the purificationof water byfgtheprecipitation "of the {heavier matter? Furtherijobject's and. advanta es will a pear in'the followingspecificatlon and t e panying drawings in which,

novel featuresof the devicejiwill be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

My invention is illustrated in the Figure lis a perspective view of my in yention, and Fig; 2 is a view of the reflector constituting 'a modified form of the device.

In carrying out my. invention, I provide an upper receptacle A, which may be made of iron, tin, wood, -or other suitable material, and which'has extending-through ts bottom a series of vertical tubes B. These tubes, -asis shown in the 'drawing,,terminate near the top of the box A'at their upper ends, while their lower ends project through the box.

1 Disposedunderneath the forward edge a of the box A is an inclined plate "C. This plate is preferably made of aluminum and has corrugations a running lengthwise of the plate.- Each troughof the corrugated 'su'rr face has one of, 'the tubesB immediately above it, the purpose of thetubesB being to spread out the water evenly upon the aluminum sheet 0." At the lower end of the v Specification of lletters latent. 1 Application filed December 15,1909

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The'receptacle A'is supplied by means of the pipe F whichhas acock G by which the flow of water may be regulated.

From the foregoing description of the vaatented July 5, 1910.-

aluminum sheet is a second receptacle "D .60 a cocke which leads to the feed water reser- 'rious' parts of the device, the operation thereof may be readily understood.

The water containing the lime or impuri I ties such as sediment-is permitted to flow .through the pipe. Einto the receptacle A. This is continued until the water rises to the tops of the tubes B,'these tubes being on the I same level=.--. The"water flows over the edge of thetuhes and down upon the plate G, thus being spread out intoa thin'sheet. The in- .clination of the late'C must be regulated and this is done y experiment. The plate is placed in such a position that the'rays of the 'sun may fall. upon the thin stream of wager as it flows from the upper to the lower e1 r I have found that the ra s of light tend to cause the suspended partic es of lime or sediment to cohere, thus forming larger particles, and to precipitate. The particular rea his mud may be blown off readily at inter-- vals and thus theboiler may be kept free from the injurious effect which follows from the use of water which has not been subjected to' the apparatus in the manner 'de- I I scribed.

In. Fig. -2, I r whichmay be placed over the sheet 0 in case the rays of sun are not available. In this reflector ma have shown' a reflector H be placed electric lights K,

and I have ound that these rays wlll have the same effect in causing the articlesof sediment to cohere as them s 0 sun. The

reflector may be made of tin or other po1-' ished metal or glass, the main purpose being to conserve as much of the light-giving rays 7 as possible. 1

It will be noted that the corrugated sheet I is of aluminum'. I make this sheetof altiwater, thereby increasing the efficiency of the device. Aluminum not being easily oxidized, the reflecting surface is preserved which would not be the case with a metal 7 which was easily rusted or corroded.

The use of this apparatus in the manner above described is particularly efiicacious in purifying the water. I have found that a boiler which has been used two months with the water treated by this device is just as clean as when the experiment began.--

I claim:

1. A water urifler comprising an upper water receptac e, a series of vertical tubes disposed in said receptacle, the'upper. ends of said tubes being on a common level, and the'lower ends of the tubes projecting through the bottom of the receptacle, an inclined corrugated light reflecting surface disposed beneath said water receptacle, said vertical tubes corresponding in number and arrangedto register with therespective cor-- rugations in said light reflecting surface and a lower water receptacle arranged to receive the water from said light reflecting surface 2. A water purifier comprising an upper water receptacle, a series of vertical tubes disposed in said receptacle, the upper ends of said tubes being on a common the lower ends of the tubes projecting through the bottom of the receptacle, an inclined non-corrosive,metallic light reflecting .surface disposed beneath said water receptacle said tubes correspondin in number and arranged to register with t e respective corrugations in said reflecting surface and a lower water receptacle arranged to receive the water from said light reflecting surface.

3. A water purifier comprising an upper water receptacle, means for regulating the admission of water thereto, a row 'ofvertical tubes disposed in said receptacle near one side thereof, the upper ends of said tubes being on a level, and the lower ends of the tubes projecting through the bottom evel, and a of the receptacle, an inclined corrugated aluminum light reflecting surface having its upper edge disposed beneath the row of. n I tubes, said tubes corresponding1 infmunberl 

